Rays Engineering

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Rays Engineering
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Founded	1973
Headquarters	7-17-5 Nagayoshi Deto Hirano-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka
Key people	Masumi Shiba (president)
Industry	Motorsport Automotive engineering
Products	Alloy wheels
Revenue	¥1,297,000,000 (2006)
Employees	287 (2006)
Website	RaysWheels.co.jp

Rays Engineering Co., Ltd. (株式会社レイズエンジニアリング, Kabushiki-gaisha Reizu Enjiniaringu^?) is a high-end Japanese wheel manufacturer for both motorsport and street use, mostly notable for its Volk Racing brand of wheels. Like GReddy to Trust, it is a common misconception that Volk Racing is the parent company of Rays Engineering, purely as it is its most associated with brand name. Their wheels feature both high-tech forging and materials.

They are the current wheel suppliers to winning factory race teams of Honda, Nissan, Toyota, and Mazda in racing series such as Super GT, Japanese Touring Car Championship (JTCC), British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), Formula Nippon, and Formula One.

Their Volk Racing wheels are popular with owners of sport compact and import cars on the race and show circuits.

Rays Engineering also manufacture wheels for car manufacturers' in-house tuning teams such as Nismo, Ralliart, STi, Mazdaspeed and Toyota Racing Development and also supply wheels to Williams Formula One team^[1] as well as the cars of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.^[2]

[edit] Products of Rays Engineering

• Gram Lights
• G-Games
• Volk Racing
• Vesta
• Sebring

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